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Rainbows are beautiful visions that you see on very special days where there is both sun and rain. Usually it happens when the rain has just stopped and you look across the landscape and a beautiful rainbow brightens up the sky. The crafts on this page are dedicated to rainbows.
A rainbow is a beautiful spectrum of colors which is mostly seen in arches and appears after it has rained. Some says a rainbow is God's promise to not to flood the earth again. But others says it's when the sunlight and the rain combine in a specific way. Rainbow colors include red, orange, blue, yellow, indigo, violet and green.
Rainbow crafts are most popular on St. Patrick's Day since there is a popular tale which says Leprechauns always hide their pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. Below you will find a few beautiful rainbow crafts for all ages.
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Handprint Rainbows for Saint Patrick's Day - This is a perfect activity for toddlers, preschoolers, and Kindergartners. They are fun to make and parents just love handprints from their children.
Rainbow Colored Books - To celebrate your love of the spectrum of light, how about making a book with rainbow-colored pages.
Fruit Loop Rainbows - Make beautiful rainbows with colorful Fruit Loops.
3D Rainbow Paper Craft for Kids - This is a cute, simple paper craft that results in a 3D ornament you can hang around the room.
Handprint Rainbow Craft for Kids - This can easily be modified into a non St-Patrick's day Biblical craft project - it goes well with the Noah's ark story. Or color the bird blue for a "Somewhere over the rainbow..." Wizard of Oz craft.
Handprint Rainbow Craft for Saint Patrick's Day - In this project, the handprints of many children form a beautiful rainbow. It makes a great classroom decoration or bulletin board. This project is good for a group of children (it is too big a project for one or two children).
Lucky Leprechaun’s “Pot of Gold” and Rainbow Kid’s Craft - Learn how to make the gold nuggets, the pot, and the rainbow...this makes for a very cool Saint Patrick's Day craft.
Make Your Own Pot of Gold with Rainbow Handle - Find out how to maket this tasty candy-filled pot of gold.
Paper Pot of Gold Craft - Our paper pot of gold is a great craft for younger children because they can help glue together all of the parts (and you can throw in a quick colors and circle shape lesson too!). This is also a great craft to make with our paper leprechaun hat craft. You can hide the gold and let your little leprechauns find it!
Pot of Gold Beaded Craft - Make a circle with black beads (ours was the center with three more layers). Take a few of the beads off the top of the circle and replace them with yellow ("gold")
Pot of Gold Rainbow Collage - Learn how to make this adorable pot of gold collage.
Rainbow and Potted Gold - Use Tissue Paper to make rainbows and potted gold.
Rainbow Streamers : Streamer Crafts Ideas for Kids - Make a handheld rainbow that you can use while putting on your own St. Patrick's Day parade or while dancing a jig.
Rainbow Streamers - A fun and interesting decoration to make for your garden!
Rainbow Paper Craft for Kids - This is a great craft for reinforcing a lesson on circles or on the fraction "half". A big thanks to one of our viewers for contributing this idea...great for St. Patrick's Day Craft.
Rainbow in A Cup Craft Activity for Kids - Make a rainbow Jello for St. Patrick's Day or other festive occasions. This cute snack is simple to make, but each layer has to set before you add the next layer, so start days before you want to eat it.
Rainbow Streamers St. Patrick's Day Craft - Make a handheld rainbow that you can use while putting on your own St. Patrick's Day parade or while dancing a jig.
St. Patrick's Day Tissue Paper Flowers and Juice Jar Vase Craft for Kids - I've given directions for making the flowers and for making the vase. You don't have to do them both... you can make some flowers and put them in a store bought vase or you can make the vase and put in some silk flowers.
Streamer Rainbow Backdrop - Make this beautiful rainbow backdrop with leftover party streamers. It is beautiful and perfect for Saint Patrick's Day.
St. Patrick's Rainbow Mobile Craft - Make a rainbow mobile with a hanging pot of gold and shamrock to celebrate St. Patrick's Day.
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Saint Patrick's Day Coloring Pages & Printouts